COLUMBUS, OH - The CFO Alliance, a community of over 4,000 financial executives, today announced a national partnership with the leading source for Middle Market insights, The National Center for the Middle Market.
The CFO Alliance and The National Center for the Middle Market both utilize unique tactics to fuel economic stability and growth by providing valuable resources to the middle market, which are defined as companies with annual revenues of $10MM to $1B. The CFO Alliance facilitates topic-focused networking discussions on the top issues and opportunities CFOs are facing while the National Center for the Middle Market helps middle market businesses be more competitive through impactful research, thoughtful advocacy, and powerful programs. These two leading organizations are joining forces in 2014 so that finance leaders in the world's 5th largest global economy can incorporate critical insights and analyses into their ongoing collaborative discussions aimed at driving growth and creating jobs for the middle market.
The evolving role of the CFO and other finance leaders has been a hot topic for years. As the CFO role becomes more strategic, financial executives have more influence on the overall performance of the enterprise. In many cases, the CFO now has more responsibility and control over the business than the CEO. This shift leaves many CFOs entering uncharted waters without much support, which doesn’t leave much confidence in their decision making. With new responsibilities pulling in every direction, it’s important for the CFO to collaborate with peers, academics, and industry experts to bounce ideas off each other in order to innovate and maximize the confidence in their decision making.
The new partnership between these two organizations will put the valuable thought leadership produced by the National Center for the Middle Market in the hands of more financial executives across the country and facilitate groundbreaking collaboration around those topics through CFO Alliance in-person and online events. This middle market dream team is sure to increase the confidence and effectiveness of business leaders around the U.S. so they can continue to drive growth and create jobs for the middle market, and, ultimately, the overall U.S. economy.
About The CFO Alliance
The CFO Alliance is a professional community of Finance Executives that provides a knowledge-sharing culture with the goal of bringing together a wide array of decision makers, combining a multitude of perspectives, expertise areas, and deliberation to arrive at the best ideas and solutions.
Established in September of 2008 to promote connectivity through a professional community of leading financial executives, The CFO Alliance brings together the experience, knowledge, and collective wisdom of peers, subject matter experts, and academic authorities to enable senior financial leaders and decision makers to be more effective and act with greater confidence throughout their career. By fostering relationships among those with common objectives, interests, opportunities, and challenges, financial leaders can make long term investments in their companies and their careers through sharing expertise and gaining confidence in their roles. Based on the success of the initial Philadelphia-based chapter, the CFOA has established a national expansion, with a current presence in eight U.S markets: New York, Los Angeles, Orange County, Washington, DC, New Jersey, Charlotte, Chicago, and Philadelphia. For more information, please visit www.theCFOalliance.org and follow The CFO Alliance Community on twitter @theCFOAlliance.
About The National Center for the Middle Market
The National Center for the Middle Market provides knowledge, leadership, and innovative research on the U.S. Middle Market. Founded out of a multiyear partnership between GE Capital and The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business, the National Center for the Middle Market exists for a single purpose: serving as the foremost expert and leading resource on the U.S. middle market economy. In this capacity, the Center provides critical insights and analyses that drive growth, increase competitiveness, create jobs for the middle market, and, ultimately, the overall U.S. economy.
Housed at The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business, the National Center for the Middle Market is the first center of its kind in the nation. The Center enthusiastically serves middle market firms, students, academic researchers, policy makers, the media, and other key stakeholders with interests in the health and wellbeing of the middle market. The Center is fully committed to funding and distributing the most credible open-sourced research, dynamically creating new knowledge, providing programs that drive value for middle market companies, and offering a well-informed outlook on the health and future of the middle market via the Middle Market Indicator. For more information, please visit www.middlemarketcenter.org and follow the Center on twitter @midmarketcenter.
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CONTACTS:Nick Araco
CFO Alliance
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Nick.Araco@thecfoalliance.org
Jeff Caywood
GE Capital
O: 513.530.7028 | C: 513.214.8100
Jeff.Caywood@ge.com